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01/29/20

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University of Illinois Anthropology Professor Laura Shackelford participates in team that has created Virtual Archaeology, a virtual reality lab which creates an immersive, in-depth archaeological field school experience on campus! The interdisciplinary team, besides Professor Shackelford, is comprised by researchers, students and educators, including Professor David Huan from Educational Policy Studies, and graduate student Cameron Merrill from Computer Science.

Professor Fennell of the Department of Anthropology presented an invited paper on the New Philadelphia Archaeological Project under the tile “Resilience and Racism in a 19th Century American Heartland: New Philadelphia and the Vagaries of Prejudice.”